Diskeeper Surveys IT Administrators: Defrag Revealed as Vital as Antivirus

Diskeeper Corporation revealed findings of a recent IT study showing Defragmentation and Antivirus as the two most important practices for IT administrators.

A panel of 179 Network Administrators was surveyed recently on the software they considered vital to have on their Servers: 48% responded with "Antivirus/Symantec" and 45%, "Defrag/Diskeeper".

These results show how fragmentation and performance related issues have become the core of IT Managers' concerns; All Windows systems suffer from fragmentation but servers are particularly affected by it. Because of multiple user traffic, it is common to see some files broken into thousands - even millions of fragments. This causes a host of intolerable problems such as slow-downs, longer back-ups and anti-virus scans, performance bottlenecks, odd conflicts between applications and crashes.

Diskeeper 2008(R) Server Edition represents the best tool to optimize networks and bring them back to their maximum performance or to prevent their fragmentation in the first place. It does it automatically with no intervention needed on the part of the IT Administrator.

Defrag is performed transparently in the background with InvisiTasking(TM ), Diskeeper's innovative technology that runs in real time, using only idle resources.
InvisiTasking is efficiently combined with I-FAAST(TM) (Intelligent File Access Acceleration Sequencing Technology) that closely monitors file usage and organises the most commonly utilised files for the fastest possible access, boosting file reads and writes up to 80%.

Not only is defrag recognized as a priority in the system maintenance process, it also enables anti-virus scans to run much quicker.

To obtain an exclusive copy of the latest white papers as well as a free trial version of Diskeeper 2008 Server, visit http://www.diskeepereurope.com.

About Diskeeper Corporation - Innovators in Performance and Reliability Technologies(TM):

With over 30 million licences sold, small businesses to large enterprises rely on Diskeeper software to provide unparalleled performance and reliability to their laptops, desktops and servers. Diskeeper Corporation further provides up-to-the-minute data protection and instant file recovery with Undelete(R).

(c) 2008 Diskeeper Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Diskeeper, I-FAAST, Undelete, Terabyte Volume Engine, InvisiTasking and Innovators in Performance and Reliability Technologies are trademarks owned by Diskeeper Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

HSBC France: a Decade of Maximum Performance and Reliability With Diskeeper

HSBC France has experienced major benefits from costs savings and better overall productivity after integrating Diskeeper(R) on its two data-centres.

Didier Guieu, System-Architecture Engineer at HSBC France, stated: "Performance has improved, back up and data access time have been considerably reduced. We win both in terms of time and money."
In 1998, Didier Guieu observed that high levels of fragmentation were slowing down the overall system performance.
He relates: "Hours were needed to copy large amount of data, and back ups were not concluding. We noticed that when the server was fragmented, the back up time sometimes needed twice as long to run."

A high number of help desk calls were also related to fragmentation issues and were monopolizing the technicians' availability.
Mr Guieu chose Diskeeper to resolve these issues. He explains: "Diskeeper can defragment big volumes, with minimum impact on the system."
After just one week, Diskeeper reduced significantly the number of problems and errors previously experienced on the server by HSBC France.

The new technology InvisiTasking(TM) was particularly appreciated: "The product is transparent. It has no impact on applications. Users don't notice that Diskeeper is working. This way, servers' performance can stay on top at all times."

Didier Guieu concluded: "We are really satisfied with the improvements delivered by Diskeeper which totally answered all our needs."

HSBC Group is solidly established in Europe, Asia, America, Middle East and African areas, with offices in 82 countries and territories.
HSBC France holds a network of 380 agencies; in addition to this are 400 agencies of 7 regional banking branches, member of the HSBC Group.

For more information on HSBC France and its services, visit http://www.hsbc.fr.

To obtain an exclusive copy of the latest case studies and white papers as well as a free trial version of Diskeeper 2008, visit http://www.diskeepereurope.com.

About Diskeeper Corporation - Innovators in Performance and Reliability Technologies(TM):

With over 30 million licences sold, small businesses to large corporations rely on Diskeeper software to provide unparalleled performance and reliability to their laptops, desktops and servers. Diskeeper Corporation further provides up-to-the-minute data protection and instant file recovery with Undelete(R).

(c) 2008 Diskeeper Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Diskeeper, I-FAAST, Undelete, Terabyte Volume Engine, InvisiTasking and Innovators in Performance and Reliability Technologies are trademarks owned by Diskeeper Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Diskeeper Reveals Best Defrag Solution for Exchange Servers

Diskeeper Corporation Europe reveals that Diskeeper(R) 2008 Enterprise Server improves Exchange servers' performance and reliability at all times; operating with outmost security in the background, it represents the safest and most efficient solution on the market.

With the constant I/O that goes on with busy Exchange servers, fragmentation of files and free space can substantially degrade system performance and increase backup times on heavily used servers.

Jason Jonilis, MNJ Technologies, speaking about the improvements noticed after installing Diskeeper on its system, says: "We found the biggest improvements in stability and speed were on Web servers and Exchange servers. After a month of running Diskeeper on our main Exchange server, the backup times and reboot times were cut by nearly 20%."

SQL servers, which also greatly suffer from fragmentation, are used by Exchange servers as backend. Such an association rapidly increases the levels of overall fragmentation. Problems such as slow-downs, crashes and freeze-ups, longer back ups and anti-virus scans will make it a priority for all IT administrators to address the problem swiftly.

It is however a necessity that defragmentation is only done when it's not at the expense of existing system performance. Diskeeper monitors all hard-disk drives and defragments individual files using only idle resources. This is made possible by the revolutionary technology called InvisiTasking™ which enables Diskeeper to operate in the background with no impact on resources. This means it will immediately stand down when any higher priority application is in use and only operate during system slack periods.

By keeping Exchange and SQL Servers free of fragmentation with Diskeeper 2008, speed of database reads and writes can be greatly enhanced.

To obtain an exclusive copy of the latest white papers as well as a free trial version of Diskeeper 2008 Enterprise Server, visit http://www.diskeepereurope.com.

About Diskeeper Corporation - Innovators in Performance and Reliability Technologies(TM):

With over 30 million licences sold, small businesses to large enterprises rely on Diskeeper software to provide unparalleled performance and reliability to their laptops, desktops and servers. Diskeeper Corporation further provides up-to-the-minute data protection and instant file recovery with Undelete(R).

(c) 2008 Diskeeper Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Diskeeper, I-FAAST, Undelete, Terabyte Volume Engine, InvisiTasking and Innovators in Performance and Reliability Technologies are trademarks owned by Diskeeper Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Diskeeper Corporation Europe Releases Case Study On Zehnder Ltd

Zehnder Ltd, the European Market leader in the building of special heating elements, experienced remarkable improvement of its system performance after deploying Diskeeper on its network.

Zehnder’s IT infrastructure consists of 28 servers, which are connected to 300 clients and supply various network services to the end user. A heavy workload and high data input, coupled with a 24/7 usage of resources, left no time for scheduled defragmentation. It furthermore implied longer back-up processes overtime.
What was needed was an automatic solution to tackle the growing system slowdowns caused by fragmentation.

Zehnder found in Diskeeper the best solution to their problem: not only was the transitional process to Diskeeper managed swiftly with no overhead costs, Diskeeper also provided Zehnder with an automatic solution, working in real time with no impact on resources. Ercan Yapalak, head of IT services at Zhender Ltd states “it is especially convenient to have an advanced feature like Diskeeper InvisiTasking™ technology in place, a technology that enables thorough system maintenance totally invisible and in the background.”

Speaking about the benefits, Ercan Yapalak says: “I detected noticeable performance improvements within the first 10 days. There was great feedback from each single user as well as from power users who indicated a clear increase in speed. Both applications and access times were notably faster.”

Benefits achieved:
Automatic defragmentation
Improved system speed, faster data delivery and faster system response time
Improved system performance
Faster and more reliable back-up processes
An easy installation process with no overhead costs

For more information on Zehnder and its products, visit www.zehnder-online.de
To obtain an exclusive copy of the latest case studies and white papers as well as a free trial version of Diskeeper 2008, visit www.diskeepereurope.com or simply click here to buy now.

About Diskeeper Corporation - Innovators in Performance and Reliability Technologies™:

With over 30 million licences sold, home users to large corporations rely on Diskeeper software to provide unparalleled performance and reliability to their laptops, desktops and servers. Diskeeper Corporation further provides up-to-the-minute data protection and instant file recovery with Undelete®.

© 2008 Diskeeper Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Diskeeper, I-FAAST, Undelete, Terabyte Volume Engine, InvisiTasking and Innovators in Performance and Reliability Technologies are trademarks owned by Diskeeper Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Diskeeper 2008 Enterprise Server: A Must For SQL Server Databases

Diskeeper Corporation Europe announced today that Diskeeper® 2008 Enterprise Server provides SQL Servers with state of the art file system performance by tackling fragmentation.

All SQL Server databases experience both internal and external fragmentation of their data. Internal fragmentation occurs when records are removed from a database but the space it occupied is still there after deletion. Eventually when this space is reused the data pages become fragmented, leading to unnecessary I/O activity.
But while the SQL Server in-built utility can easily handle internal fragmentation, it cannot do anything against external fragmentation.

External fragmentation refers to the fragmentation of files on the server’s disk and it can cause as much if not more unnecessary I/O activity as internal fragmentation, lowering the system performance over time.

Diskeeper 2008 Enterprise Server represents the perfect solution for this problem: when Diskeeper runs, it does not only defragment database and log files by putting files back into a contiguous state, it also defrags free space, so that when database or log files expand, they can do so with little or no fragmentation.

Diskeeper 2008 Enterprise Server with InvisiTasking™ automatically defragments files or free space when it is needed and does it invisibly without affecting system resources or intruding on system demands.

With Terabyte Volume Engine™ 2.0 (TVE), Diskeeper provides fast defragmentation for high capacity, high traffic servers such as SANs, RAIDs, and NAS. This is the only technology which has the horsepower necessary to eliminate, in real time, the rapid fragmentation build-up that occurs in volumes which may handle tens of thousands and even millions of files.

Diskeeper 2008 Enterprise Server makes it possible to raise enterprise level servers to an entirely new standard of speed, performance and reliability.

To obtain an exclusive copy of the latest white papers as well as a free trial version of Diskeeper 2008 Enterprise Server, visit www.diskeepereurope.com or simply click here to buy now.

About Diskeeper Corporation - Innovators in Performance and Reliability Technologies™:

With over 30 million licences sold, home users to large corporations rely on Diskeeper software to provide unparalleled performance and reliability to their laptops, desktops and servers. Diskeeper Corporation further provides up-to-the-minute data protection and instant file recovery with Undelete®.

© 2008 Diskeeper Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Diskeeper, I-FAAST, Undelete, Terabyte Volume Engine, InvisiTasking and Innovators in Performance and Reliability Technologies are trademarks owned by Diskeeper Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

5 Ways Diskeeper Saves Money

In times of impending financial crisis, the focus lies on keeping companies in the viability range. Every enterprise re-evaluates its expenditures and searches for the Return on Investment that will make a difference.

Here are 5 key reasons why installing Diskeeper on Companies’ networks is vital to reduce costs and to insure that productivity stays at its highest:

1. Diskeeper® 2008 is an automatic defragmentation tool that works in the background, with no impact on users resources keeping fragmentation levels near to zero at all times. System performance will run smoothly and efficiently allowing productivity to be at its highest.

2. Fragmented hard drives drain critical system resources and compromise almost every aspect of daily computer use. Diskeeper 2008 debugs fragmentation-based problems as they occur, thus considerably reducing help-desk traffic. Users will be able to carry on with their work, instead of wasting valuable production time waiting for bugs and crashes to be solved.

3. Automatic defragmentation software minimizes the administrative cost of managing and the downtime required to implement your defragmentation policy, allowing system administrators to concentrate on other vital tasks. And if the company uses external services for its help-desk calls, using Diskeeper will directly reduce contract costs.

4. Diskeeper with Invisitasking™ is completely automatic, taking care of defragmentation in real time, which implies that long defragmentation processes during the evening or at week-ends are no longer needed. As fragmentation is taken care of during production time, overtime pay cheques become a thing of the past.

5. Defragmentation reduces the disk head’s activity, saving the hard disks from being damaged too quickly. Keeping your disks defragmented can thus extend the life of the hardware up to 3 years, saving companies even more.

Obtain an exclusive copy of the latest white papers and a free trial version of Diskeeper 2008 at www.diskeepereurope.com and learn how Diskeeper can save your company money.

About Diskeeper Corporation - Innovators in Performance and Reliability Technologies™:

With over 30 million licences sold, home users to large corporations rely on Diskeeper software to provide unparalleled performance and reliability to their laptops, desktops and servers. Diskeeper Corporation further provides up-to-the-minute data protection and instant file recovery with Undelete®.

© 2008 Diskeeper Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Diskeeper, Undelete, InvisiTasking and Innovators in Performance and Reliability Technologies are trademarks owned by Diskeeper Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Diskeeper Speeds Up Data Delivery

Diskeeper Corporation, the undisputed leader in defragmentation technology, reveals that Diskeeper Enterprise Server edition with I-FAAST ™2.0 can dramatically speed up data delivery for servers by up to 80%, helping companies reach unprecedented new levels of server productivity.

Server performance is often evaluated on how fast the drives can deliver data. No matter how much is invested in multiple processors and additional memory, if the hard drive can't deliver data in a timely manner, the entire network will continue to suffer from sluggish boot times, persistent lags and costly crashes.

Diskeeper Enterprise Server with I-FAAST technology has been specifically designed to accelerate file access in order to meet the heavy workload demands of file-intensive applications. Using the specially formulated technology, I-FAAST closely monitors file usage and re-sequences the most commonly accessed files enabling the fastest possible access. Demonstrated results have proved vastly increased performance in file access speeds of up to 80%.

Diskeeper Enterprise Server is proven as the fastest defragmentation available for high-capacity, high-traffic servers, such as SANs, RAID, and NAS.

To obtain an exclusive copy of the latest white papers as well as a free trial version of Diskeeper 2008 Enterprise Server, visit www.diskeepereurope.com.

About Diskeeper Corporation - Innovators in Performance and Reliability Technologies™:

With over 30 million licences sold, home users to large corporations rely on Diskeeper software to provide unparalleled performance and reliability to their laptops, desktops and servers. Diskeeper Corporation further provides up-to-the-minute data protection and instant file recovery with Undelete®.

© 2008 Diskeeper Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Diskeeper, I-FAAST, Undelete, InvisiTasking and Innovators in Performance and Reliability Technologies are trademarks owned by Diskeeper Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Diskeeper Corporation Points out Risks of Manual Defragmentation

Diskeeper announced that manual defragmentation can lead to routine maintenance not getting done, making an automatic defragmenter the only workable solution for this critical task.

No enterprise is immune to the requirements of regular defragmentation in order to maintain peak system performance. However, for most sites manual defragmentation is no longer an option due to the high fragmentation levels and the time required for a defragmenter to run. Faced with this problem, many IT Administrators are likely to postpone a thorough defragmentation process.

This implies that high levels of fragmentation will accumulate leading the way to numerous performance and reliability problems such as longer load up times, continual lags and costly crashes. Even defragmentation, which is carried out quite swiftly when applied regularly, ends up taking hours, making the issue even harder to resolve.

Real-time defragmentation automatically and transparently handles fragmentation as it occurs providing maximum system performance at all times. Diskeeper® 2008 achieves this with a brand new technology called InvisiTasking™ which tackles fragmentation using only idle resources. Thus no intrusion takes place on system performance and system demands.

Obtain an exclusive copy of the latest white papers and a free trial version of Diskeeper 2008 at www.diskeepereurope.com.

About Diskeeper Corporation - Innovators in Performance and Reliability Technologies™:

With 30 million licences sold, home users to large corporations rely on Diskeeper software to provide unparalleled performance and reliability to their laptops, desktops and servers. Diskeeper Corporation further provides up-to-the-minute data protection and instant file recovery with Undelete®.

© 2008 Diskeeper Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Diskeeper, Undelete, InvisiTasking and Innovators in Performance and Reliability Technologies are trademarks owned by Diskeeper Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.